Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling

This conference is primarily concerned with applications of medical imaging data in the engineering of therapeutic systems. Original papers are requested in the following topic areas:

• image-guided procedures
• minimally invasive surgery
• computer-assisted therapy and therapy planning
• robotic interventions and surgical tools
• robot-assisted tools for patient management
• localization technologies and navigation systems
• tracking and calibration
• intra-operative imaging
• novel image-to-patient registration for surgery and intervention
• mathematical modeling to guide and understand therapy
• modeling of intra-procedural changes
• modeling and analysis of procedures and procedure workflows
• techniques in population-specific and patient-specific model generation
• image-based models for characterization of tissue and disease properties
• image-based characterization of disease
• medical image-based simulation and training
• augmented/virtual/mixed reality visualization
• 3D/stereoscopic visualization
• novel interfaces for therapy and visualization of data
• clinical applications and technology integration
• high-performance computing for real-time modeling and/or large dataset visualization
• machine-learning and artificial intelligence for surgical/interventional/therapeutic applications
• interventional/therapeutic assessment and prediction
• surgical/interventional/therapeutic data science
• safety and standards for image-guided and robotic procedures
• other related areas.

Submissions that cross over between this conference and others at SPIE Medical Imaging, and which would be appropriate for combined sessions, are also welcomed.

We intend to give special recognition to authors whose conference proceedings are accompanied by open-source access to datasets and software.